In pictures: Desert Storm Commander Norman Schwarzkopf

As a teenager he accompanied his father to Iran, where the elder Schwarzkopf trained the country's national police force and was an adviser to Reza Pahlavi, the young Shah of Iran. Young Norman studied there and in Switzerland, Germany and Italy, then followed in his father's footsteps to the West Point military academy, graduating in 1956 with an engineering degree.Picture: Rex Features